CGS Buy & Build strategy: operational value creation via buildup of industrial groups ("Clusters")

CGS only invests in industries where the Managing Partners have extensive operational experience:

• Electronics and electrical engineering
• Machinery and equipment
• Measurement and control systems / sensors
• Construction supplies
• Plastics industry
• Industrial equipment
  
  One cluster consists of:
  1 platform investment and
  2 - 4 add-on investments
• Platform investments in Switzerland, Germany, Austria 
• Add-on acquisitions in Europe/ ROW
• Company size:
  Small and lower mid-size companies
  with revenues between 10-80m EUR

Industry landscape Switzerland, Germany, Austria 

• Smaller companies often do not have the financial means and know-how to internationalize their operations
• Consolidation on the clients side weakens negotiation power for small and mid-size companies
• Mature industries are under consolidation pressure which is intensified by globalization